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... seen fit to ad- vocate free trade in liquids . This don't suit " the trade " ; so its ad- vocate lifts up a licentious voice , and vituperates in allegory of blas- phemy , In the fervour of its zeal it charges with a parody on the ...
... seen fit to ad- vocate free trade in liquids . This don't suit " the trade " ; so its ad- vocate lifts up a licentious voice , and vituperates in allegory of blas- phemy , In the fervour of its zeal it charges with a parody on the ...
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... seen it , without calling to mind that axiom of transcendental chivalry which Sheridan puts into the mouth of Sir Lucius O'Trigger ...... " Let your courage be as keen , but at the same time as polished , as your sword . " The original ...
... seen it , without calling to mind that axiom of transcendental chivalry which Sheridan puts into the mouth of Sir Lucius O'Trigger ...... " Let your courage be as keen , but at the same time as polished , as your sword . " The original ...
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... seen , and was a worthy successor of the exploit of that same Job Marson- " When Nutwith won the Leger , In the year of " " the leary dodge " ..... Norman rode Stockwell . Some of the tailers met with miscellaneous misadventures ; but ...
... seen , and was a worthy successor of the exploit of that same Job Marson- " When Nutwith won the Leger , In the year of " " the leary dodge " ..... Norman rode Stockwell . Some of the tailers met with miscellaneous misadventures ; but ...
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... seen him announce himself to Mrs. Cooper , and heard her practical commentary on his euphonious appellation . " Elnathan would certainly have been " a hard word " in the Stable Directory . Like most of our jockeys , pursuing , in fact ...
... seen him announce himself to Mrs. Cooper , and heard her practical commentary on his euphonious appellation . " Elnathan would certainly have been " a hard word " in the Stable Directory . Like most of our jockeys , pursuing , in fact ...
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... seen killed in the forest . As soon as I came out again into the road , where I had left Tam- bour's anxious master , I still found him there , in the highest state of excitement ; although past four o'clock , and getting nearly dark ...
... seen killed in the forest . As soon as I came out again into the road , where I had left Tam- bour's anxious master , I still found him there , in the highest state of excitement ; although past four o'clock , and getting nearly dark ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 204 - There is a stone there, that whoever kisses, Oh! he never misses to grow eloquent. 'Tis he may clamber to a lady's chamber, Or become a member of parliament: A clever spouter he'll sure turn out, or An out-and-outer, "to be let alone," Don't hope to hinder him, or to bewilder him; Sure he's a pilgrim from the Blarney stone!
Página 69 - ... and I would not have believed it, if I had not seen it...
Página 256 - no house, office, room or other place shall be opened, kept or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier or keeper thereof, or any person using the same, or...
Página 372 - ... information upon which the conviction takes place, and the remaining half shall be applied in aid of the poor rate of the parish in which the offence shall have been committed, and shall be paid for that purpose to the overseer or other person authorized to receive poor rates in snch...
Página 138 - ... race, shall be disqualified for winning the race, whether such jostle or cross happened by the swerving of the horse, or by the foul and careless riding of the jockey, or otherwise...
Página 155 - Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Página 224 - Straight down the Crooked Lane And all round the Square.
Página 305 - At a Meeting of the Jockey Club, held on Thursday in the Second October Meeting, 1838, which was very numerously attended, it was unanimously resolved:— That it is the opinion of this Club that it is necessary to declare their extreme disapprobation of horses being started for races without the intention, on the part of their owners, of trying to win them.
Página 256 - AN ACT for the Suppression of Betting Houses. [20tA August, 1853.] WHEREAS a kind of gaming has of late sprung up tending to the injury and demoralization of improvident persons by the opening of places called betting houses or offices, and the receiving of money in advance by the owners or occupiers of such houses or offices, or by other persons acting on their behalf, on their promises to pay money on events of horse races and the like contingencies : for the suppression thereof be it enacted as...
Página 352 - A bound and a hawk no longer Shall be symptoms of disaffection ; A cock-fight shall cease to be breach of the peace, And a horse-race an insurrection.